Introduction to the thread
It is now 2019 and I figured it was time to start a new appreciation thread for Medusa, queen of the Inhumans. I hope the new year ushers in new stories that are unhindered by any preconceived notions or harbored ill will due to the past. A new year means a fresh start and new opportunities. So let's dive into a sea of ruby red follicles and get entangled in the magnificent character that we know and love.
Previous appreciation thread
For the previous appreciation thread by Knight of DC, please click here: https://community.cbr.com/showthread...a-Appreciation
Basic information on the character
Name: Medusalith (Medusa) Amaquelin- Boltagon
Race: Inhuman
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 130 lbs (59 kg)
Hair color: Red
Eye color: Green
Powers: Trichokinesis
Medusa can control the movement of her hair as if it were countless thin appendages growing from her head. A psionic field permeates her mutagenically altered hair-cells, causing mutual attraction across the gaps between strands. These relatively small forces operate in conjunction to develop larger forces. Through concentration, she can psionically move her hair in any manner imaginable. She can snap the length of it through the air like a whip (the tip of which moves faster than the speed of sound), or rotate it in a fan-like manner. She can bind persons or objects with it as if it were rope or use it to lift objects which weigh more than she could lift with her arms. (Her scalp, skull, and neck do not support the weight of an object that she lifts: it is held aloft by the psionic force coursing through the hair.) Medusa can also perform delicate manipulations with her hair such as lock picking or threading a needle, and such complex acts of coordination as typing or shuffling a deck of cards. Although she has no nerve endings in her hair, she can "feel" sensations on all parts of her hair by a form of mental feedback from her psionic field.
Medusa possesses a long, thick head of hair, every strand of which has greater tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and shear resistance than an iron wire of the same thickness (average hair diameter: .045 inches), as well as the psychokinetic ability to animate her hair for a number of feats. Her hair, approximately 6 feet in length while relaxed, can elongate to almost twice its normal length with only about a 25% loss of overall tensile strength. One strand of hair, 2-feet long, can support 6.4 pounds, a fist-sized lock of hair can support about 750 pounds and her whole head of hair can lift about 3,200 pounds (1.6 tons). A portion of her hair must be used to anchor the rest at these greater weights, so that more than her scalp/skull is used as a brace.
Recommended reading
As of right now there are no on-going comic titles in which Medusa is prominently featured. She was seen a few times with her sister, Crystal, in the current Fantastic Four title. But for recommended reading, please click here: https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/01...nimated-movie/